Chance a friend!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please chance (it's a friend of Cgar514) for MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Indian Location: Minnesota, USA
GPA: unweighted: 3.92 (rank 9th)
weighted: 4.12 (ranked 6th)
PSAT: 238 CR:80 M: 80 W: 78
SAT I: 2270 CR:740 M:780 W:750 (maybe retake?)
SATII (all recently taken, scores not out yet):
Math 2 (expecting 800)
US History (mid 700s?)
Chemistry(mid 700s)</p>

<p>APs: US Gov 5, US History 5, literature 4, statistics 5, computer science 5(self studied) </p>

<p>Have taken Calculus I throught Calculus III at the University of Minnesota</p>

<p>Volunteering: 20 hrs at local library</p>

<p>Activities</p>

<p>Varsity math team
Minnesota Youth Symphony (played in both the 2nd and 3rd highest levels of 4 levels)
School's chamber orchestra 1 yrs (not a class, conductor selects a few people to play with him)
B squad tennis
All-State Orchestra</p>

<p>Awards:
All in math team
Co-Captain next yr</p>

<p>Varsity since freshman year
Top 50 in state since freshman year
Freshman yr:
9th in division
40th in state</p>

<p>Sophomore:
3rd in division
30th in state
1st place at St. Cloud university competition
Honorable mention at Mankato University competition
2nd on the team (lol 1st was Cgar514)</p>

<p>Junior:</p>

<p>2nd in division
17th in state
3 place at St. Cloud university competition
2nd place at Mankator university competition
MVP of team</p>

<p>Summer (this yr): carnegie mellon computer science summer program
all-state orchestra camp</p>

<p>I want to go into computer engineering :)
Thx a lot</p>

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<p>i think he has a great shot at every school</p>

<p>the only thing that is holding him back is volunteering, but i dont really see that as a huge obstacle in getting into top schools. with stellar recs and great essays, he'll probably get into one of those schools</p>

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<p>I'm assuming Indian as in from India, not Native American, right (unfortunately NA actually does help, not only from racial standpoint but economic diversity too...) how many kids are in his class (grade level)? SAT scores are a bit lower than PSAT would predict, maybe a test prep book and a retake is in order? seems a very strong candidate..depressingly good in fact (to me). no guarantees, especially with MIT, but good...very good...I really like caltech and stanford (i live close to there, so i guess i'm biased) for computer engineering if you get in there. MIT obviously is great too, but cali weather is the bomb and there is the whole silicon valley thing...</p>

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<p>class size 450 :)
And yes I'm from India, not native american. Idk about your confidence, my math team is pretty good, but as my only good EC activity, I think it might not be good enough for MIT and stuff. Like cgar514 himslef has been better than me at math team (only last season) although overall I am consistently the best. But other people have national titles, state champ titles, whatnot...</p>

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<p>Well the way I read your app is that you are a very good student all around, but you are obviously very interested in computer science and math. and as scared says, ECs don't matter that much if ur strong academically...think about it this way. Pretend MIT takes (accepts and yields) every single one of those state champs (obviously in real life even MIT wont take all of them, its yield is 69%). It will still need more. MIT also doesn't really admit based on other aspects like sports (teams are laughingly bad for such a prestigious school). It has (if i remember correctly) about a thousand students in each class. obviously they dont base their admits on state titles, but if they did, then 1000/50=20, and u were 17th. Remember that other schools will compete with MIT for admits too! ranked 6th out of 450 is very strong. a SAT retake might help bump up ur chances too. Obviously not saying u have 100% chance, but it should def. be on ur radar. </p>

<p>BTW, did u ever take any practice tests (and what company's) for the SAT IIs? b/c it would be helpful if we know how accurate ur guesses are for the SAT II scores (not that it really matters as the real scores come out in like a week)</p>

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<p>i did take practice tests, and those were my lowest scores on practices, so hopefully higher. Btw, I'm thinking, i understand your logic, but you do realize there are like 100 different activities each with state champs though, and many national competitions. I kinda wish I tried one of those though. just wondering, how do i compare to cgar514? his link is: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/521225-how-does-winning-medal-national-so-tournament-help-ma-chances.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/521225-how-does-winning-medal-national-so-tournament-help-ma-chances.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I'm guessing he's better though lol.</p>